Category: Research
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Using my body as an analytical tool – is there anybody out there?
“I have conducted an ethnographic fieldwork in a public school, in a reception class, with children aged 7 – 9. I now have a lot of empirical material to analyze. I have fieldnotes, sound recordings, some photos etc. Read more about my studies in Educational Anthropology I have a question to you, and I need…
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Selves, sounds, containers, and Neo’s cat
Reflecting on my observations in the reception class (read more about my field study here), I come to think about the pupils and their struggles to come to some kind of grasps with what is expected from them. It’s evident that in this specific context, there are some adults that are trying to make them understand what…
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An economy of emotions and actions? Part 2 of 4
Part 2. Forging a concept: “Proposition” (Continued from: An economy of emotions and actions? Part 1 of 4) What I am basically trying to do here, is to find a way of talking about the processes through which ‘something new’ comes into being in a collective. I am thinking about all the small interactions, where someone…
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An economy of emotions and actions? Part 1 of 4
Part 1: Power or humor? In a few days, I will be starting off my field study. As you might have read in an earlier blog post (in Danish), as a part of my studies in Educational Anthropology, I am going to conduct a field work study in a ‘reception class’, or in Danish: “Modtageklasse”.…
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Composición improvisada en grupos – nuevas experiencias
En enero – febrero 2016 estoy en la residencia de artistas de la fundacion Lugar a Dudas, en Cali, Colombia. Durante mi estancia tengo la oportunidad de dar talleres en la Universidad del Valle y el Instituto Departemental de Bellas Artes. En este video se puede ver estudiantes de música de la Universidad del Valle participando en…
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Movement, sound and people – a transnordic dialogue in progress
At the seminar The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society – Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects, composer Casper Hernández Cordes did a workshop, and choreographer Kenneth Flak had the role of reflecting on the workshop. This started a really interesting discussion, that we would like to continue, this time in a ‘plugged’, online version, for…
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What are you doing with your hands?
For the second time this year – and in my life – I had the luck to be invited to Helsinki, Finland. This time the host was Nordic Culture Point (Kulturkontakt Nord), and the occasion was the seminar: The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society – Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects My contribution was a workshop,…
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Art as consumption vs artists engaging in real life collective processes
This is (part of) my speech at the seminar The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society – Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects, Helsinki, Finland, 2015-09-23 ( I start by reciting my blogpost What Makes us a Collective? explaining the model above, and then continue … ) ” … This model stresses the circular relationship between producing…
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Creating a sense of communality through sound and gesture – Minna Liski’s report on Building Sound Collectives
Minna Liski’s comments/report on Building Sound Collectives Workshop Casper Hernández Cordes, Fonografit (Denmark) Fri 8th at 11.30-13.00 The Open Stage concept of the conference was about forming an experimental platform where art and science could meet and establish a dialogue. It is understood that this dialogue may help artists and scientists gain new perspectives on…
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Building sound academia. What actually happened in Helsinki?
Are human beings more than merely brains attached to a chunk of flesh&bones, and does it make sense to imagine a modality of human interaction, we could call corporeal reflection? Workshops in nonverbal interaction for scholars at a wordy conference in Helsinki.
Building Sound Collectives 